Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-02-19
EASTERN AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Laborador coast.
There is bill before the Maine Legisla-
ture to regulate the traffic in opium.
1t is proposed to light the seven hills Of
Rome with electric lights run by water power.
A band of Indian squaws who came into
Bangor, D. T., few days ago, all invested
in corsets.
Governor Foraker, OF Ohio, has expressed
himself strongly in favor Of Sherman for
the next President.
Great alarm has been caused in Madrid by
frequent murderous attacks upon pedestrians
in the streets al night.
The bill to prohibit the manufacture and
sale Of oleomargarine has passed the Della
ware House Of Representatives.
Alexander Macarthur has started from
Winnepeg for Selkirk with one companion,
his destination being the North Pole.
The President has vetoed the bill appro.
pripting $4,000 for the distribution of seeds
to drought stricken counties of Texas.
Claus Spreckels had long interview with
the President this week on the subject Of the
mail service between California and Austria.
lasia.
Three young Italian women are about to
start literary review in Rome. Its object
will be largely to direct attention to women's
work.
Rev. DR.. Block, rabbi Of the wealthiest
and most aristocratic Jewish church in the
State, that at Youngstown, Ohio, is charged
with forgery.
1t is claimed by Boston paper that were
the Dependent Relatives Pension bill to be-
come law Jeff Davis would be entitled to a
pension under it.
Minister Lathrop says the weather in Rus
sia is too severe for him, although this is
said to be the mildest winter St. Petersburg
has had for years.
The Government receipts so far this month
amount to $ISy, 900, 600, an average Of over
81, ,ooo, 900 day. The expenditures have
been unusually heavy.
The Governor Of Ohio has appointed VIM.
H. Taft to the vacant seat on the bench OF
the Supreme Court. His father formerly
held the same position.
The Afghan Boundary Commission have
discovered coal seams eighteen to twenty. five
feet in thickness, covering a vast extent of
country in that section of Asia.
A rumor has been circulated in Canada
that money from the United States is being
used to defeat the present Dominion Gov.
ernment in the coming elections.
The Florida papers charge the railroad
with discriminating against the tourist ex-
cursions to that State, and otherwise dis
couraging travel in that direction.
The recent Austrian tariff discrimination
against American petroleum was at the in-
stance of Hungarians rehners who have close
connection with the Government.
A bill has been introduced in the New
York Assembly legalizing the sale of light
wines and malt liquors on Sunday between
the hours Of 2 P. NJ. and midnight.
A large cake of ice, cut from the Illinois
river, near Ottawa, contained the dead body
of a man frozen in the middle Of it. The
dead man was Joseph Johnson, Of Peru, Ill.
# is said that the Marquis of Queensberry
offered to give $40, 900 toward the Stanley
Relief Expedition, but it was refused by
Stanley because he preferred to pick bis own
company.
There is prospect Of open warfare between
the Chicago District Assemblies and the
General Board of the Knights Of Labor, the
former being disinclned to obey orders from
Mr., Powderly.
The Secretary of War, in communication
to Congress, reports the unorganized militia
of the United States at 1886 men. Ar
kansas, Oregon, Tennessee and Mississippi
have no organized forces.
The United States Fish Commissioner at
Woods Hall has Matched and turned loose
IS, ,ooo, 900 young cod, and is going to plant
10, 600 900 more. And yet paddock will be
! sold as cod just as much as ever.
Baron de Joest of Paris, noted all his life
for his cruel treatment of all men and ami.
mails he came in contact with, has left his
whole estate of $500, 900 to the Society for
the Prevention Of Cruelty to Animals.
The actual presentation of the complaint
for divorce Of her Royal Highness the Prin-
cess Louise against her husband. the Marquis
. Of Lorne, has been stopped, for the time al
! least, so it is reported, through the personal
efforts Of the Queen.
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